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Sloan: June 29, 2015 Rough Trade – Flac/MP3/Streaming

Sloan has to be the most democratic working band around these days. For the band’s last album, the four members of the quartet each had a single side of a double album dedicated to that member’s songs. But Commonwealth is not a novelty record — its an album that purposefully accentuates the strengths of Sloan with each performer given the chance to shine. The first side is dedicated to the Laurel Canyon-ish sweet country soul of Jay Ferguson, side two is the power pop of Chris Murphy, the third side is Patrick Pentland’s straightforward rock and the final side is one track, Andrew Scott’s opus “Forty-Eight Portraits”. At Rough Trade last Monday, Sloan opened with Andrew’s track and it set the tone for the evening as the band passed the lead vocals democratically among the members and while the setlist was heavy on Commonwealth material, it also was culled from a variety of the band’s eleven albums. For the Fall tour, the band had utilized the two-set format to play Commonwealth in the first set and selected classics in the second. For this tour, the sets are more mixed and the result was that the sold-out crowd realized quickly that the Commonwealth material holds up to the best of the band’s catalog. We’re partial to Jay’s contributions, and we are streaming the first side track “Three Sisters” below, along with Chris’s “Carried Away”, which is the second single from the album.

I recorded this set with the Schoeps cards mounted inside of the soundboard booth and mixed with an outstanding feed provided by the band’s FOH Mike. The result is a superb recording. Enjoy!

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Set 2
[Total Time 1:03:37]
14 If It Feels Good Do It
15 C’mon C’mon
16 [banter – keeping up with Rush]
17 Fading Into Obscurity
18 Worried Now
19 Who Taught To Live Like That
20 Ready For You
21 The N.S.
22 Love Is All Around
23 On The Horizon
24 Someone I Can Be True With
25 Ill Placed Trust
26 Cleopatra
27 The Other Man
28 Reach Out
29 [encore break]
30 The Rest of My Life
31 Five Hundred Up

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5 Responses to Sloan: June 29, 2015 Rough Trade – Flac/MP3/Streaming

Thanks for posting this, absolutely worth visiting sloan’s website
I wish the “Hit & Run” E.P wasn’t only an online purchase, I would love to have it on CD.
Great set!

Matthew B

July 9, 2015 at 12:01 am

We were right near the front for this fantastic show (the fourth time we’ve seen Sloan), and this recording sounds better than it did from the audience. Incredibly clean and yet captures the excitement. Many thanks for posting!

Manny

July 9, 2015 at 6:02 pm

Great show guys! Love Forty Eight Portraits and Three Sisters off of the new album. So glad I caught this show.

joedick

July 16, 2015 at 9:58 pm

Thanks for posting this! Whoa, I think this is the first show I’ve heard without Money City Maniacs since Navy Blues came out. Seems like they’re cycling some of the singles in and out of the lineup. Which is great, Sloan shows were starting to get predictable: tracks from the new album with the usual hits and crowd pleasers interspersed.

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